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A Literary History of Medicine by the Syrian physician Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿah (d. 1270) is the earliest comprehensive history of medicine. It contains biographies of over 432 physicians, ranging from the ancient Greeks to the author's contemporaries, describing their training and practice, often as court physicians, and listing their medical works; all this interlaced with poems and anecdotes. These volumes present the first complete and annotated translation along with a new edition of the Arabic text showing the stages in which the author composed the work. Introductory essays provide important background. The reader will find on these pages an Islamic society that worked closely with Christians and Jews, deeply committed to advancing knowledge and applying it to health and wellbeing.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Editorial Policy
List of Figures and Tables
Abbreviations
Map of the Islamic World ca. 1200
Volume 1 Essays
1 Introductory Remarks
2 Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿah: His Life and Career
Franak Hilloowala
3 ʿUyūn al-anbāʾ fī ṭabaqāt al-aṭibbāʾ: Its Genre and Title
Geert Jan van Gelder
4 The Textual and Manuscript Tradition of Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿah's ʿUyūn al-anbāʾ fī ṭabaqāt al-aṭibbāʾ
Ignacio Sánchez
5 Written Sources and the Art of Compilation in Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿah's ʿUyūn al-anbāʾ fī ṭabaqāt al-aṭibbāʾ
Ignacio Sánchez
6 Poetry in ʿUyūn al-anbāʾ
Geert Jan van Gelder
7 The Greek Chapters and Galen
Simon Swain
8 The Practice of Medicine as Seen through the ʿUyūn al-anbāʾ
Emilie Savage-Smith
List of Biographies by Chapter in Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿah's ʿUyūn al-anbāʾ
Bibliography
General Index to Vol. 1
Glossary of Weights and Measures
Index of Verses to Vol. 2
Index of Qur'anic Quotations and Allusions to Vols. 2 and 3
Index of Personal Names to Vols. 2 and 3
Index of Place Names to Vols. 2 and 3
Subject Index to Vols. 2 and 3
